The launch of a new storage platform, even a distributed one, may not get your heart racing, but Hedvig, which is launching out of stealth today and announcing a new funding round, has the kind of pedigree that makes it worth a closer look. Hedvig was founded by Avinash Lakshman, who previously co-invented Cassandra at Facebook and then later worked on Amazon’s Dynamo NoSQL database. If somebody knows about how to build a distributed and scalable storage solution, it’s probably Lakshman.